What made you feel good today?

[Syndrome]

Today is 7 months since my last cigarette.

About 100 packs not smoked

About $3,500 saved.

[Tonz]

kero and a match also work well.
another idea for bees under a building......metal tray, thin layer of petrol, push under building and run like hell is after you.

did that with a 40' container 6" off the ground and big fat bees nest possibly 6 moths old. got a roll of Uni-Pro 550mm 25m Plastic Drop Down Sheet With Masking Tape sealed around the base of container and covered bottom of plastic with dirt. left a small gap where I pushed the metal tray through. Faaart did they get upset, but 48 hours later had a win, ruined a huge honey comb though

[Tassie f100]

Originally Posted by Tonz

kero and a match also work well.
another idea for bees under a building......metal tray, thin layer of petrol, push under building and run like hell is after you.

did that with a 40' container 6" off the ground and big fat bees nest possibly 6 moths old. got a roll of Uni-Pro 550mm 25m Plastic Drop Down Sheet With Masking Tape sealed around the base of container and covered bottom of plastic with dirt. left a small gap where I pushed the metal tray through. Faaart did they get upset, but 48 hours later had a win, ruined a huge honey comb though

Much much smarter move would have been to call beekeeper to remove the hive.

[Tonz]

was only 6" gap between ground and frame of container, these little beees had made their hive under the floorboards between the metal frame. Was impossible to get under there without excavating a hole,
3 bee keepers did come (2 personal friends)

it worked well.

[.:4:.]

Bit of a double barreled one. My kid keeps breaking himself. So he is down for the count for this season for soccer. Thats not good. But onwards and upwards he wants to learn an instrument. Specifically drumkit. I didnt say no as i did percussion and got the top mark in the top grade taking the easy option when i was 17, yeah, drumkit. So as i dont like to talk to my ex wife, my advice was start with piano and move into general percussion. Xylophones, tympany, stuff like that. Proper learning music and reading sheet music. Yes there is a difference between making noise and playing a drumkit, but anybody can jump on a kit and make noise. But my kid is sort of the opposite of me. I was crap at sports. He has broken more bones then i can remember. Maybe music can be his creative outlet. Im more then happy if he gets lessons to gift and re tune my kit for him. That thing has a stupid amount of money thrown into parts on it.

[Citroënbender]

He could learn darbouka, then you have a legit reason to watch belly dancing performances where he’s drumming.

[Citroënbender]

Another one of those bittersweet moments today. Took my father to his weekly physio session at the nursing home. It’s an hour of fairly intense one-on-one so I stay in case he gets disoriented or distressed.

Towards the end of the session, the physio brings over a small plastic step platform, and tries to demonstrate the exercise required - to lift a foot and “tap” the top of the step, then repeat with the other foot. Anyway, silly bugger just can’t grasp the idea of not actually standing on the top of this step, despite the physio chap demonstrating half a dozen times.

Eventually as the instructor turns away for a moment in frustration, old man places both feet solidly on top of this little platform and announces loudly to the room “I’m the king of the castle”. The place echoed with laughter.

[.:4:.]

Originally Posted by Citroënbender

Another one of those bittersweet moments today. Took my father to his weekly physio session at the nursing home. It’s an hour of fairly intense one-on-one so I stay in case he gets disoriented or distressed.

Towards the end of the session, the physio brings over a small plastic step platform, and tries to demonstrate the exercise required - to lift a foot and “tap” the top of the step, then repeat with the other foot. Anyway, silly bugger just can’t grasp the idea of not actually standing on the top of this step, despite the physio chap demonstrating half a dozen times.

Eventually as the instructor turns away for a moment in frustration, old man places both feet solidly on top of this little platform and announces loudly to the room “I’m the king of the castle”. The place echoed with laughter.

Mate, the proclamation sounds worth it. Yes it may to a degree make you think in the back of your mind. Well, im not going to say anymore. Your old bloke is still there. Still a character, a person, maybe not 100% but still there. My old man kicked it aged 65. That was last year. My ex wifes dad has been in a nursing home for years now, pretty much kept in bed for 21 hours a day. No mind etc. My grandparents are mid 90s and still get about as good as really old people can. Just appreciate it as long as it lasts.

[roKWiz]

Woke to solid rain fall for a second day, we have finally got some good amounts here.
Only thing wrong is running out of stone, one day left to finish Wodonga entrance but have to get into the flood prone quarry to pick corners.

Happy for all the local farmers.

[Mechan1k]

Quaries in the wet .... that'd be "fun" to negotiate.

[roKWiz]

Originally Posted by Mechan1k

Quaries in the wet .... that'd be "fun" to negotiate.

Yep, firm enough in the pit being solid granite floor but sometimes drive through water as deep as the door footwells on the truck.
Mind not as bad as some of the NSW Central Coast ones easy to bog down to the axles there.
Oh well, enjoying the rain.

[Citroënbender]

Sounds like Kimbriki in the wet; the challenge is to keep the skids and fishtailing to an acceptable level.

[Mechan1k]

Originally Posted by Citroënbender

Sounds like Kimbriki in the wet; the challenge is to keep the skids and fishtailing to an acceptable level.

Was interesting doing courier work in conditions like this I can tell you
Even the BFII XLS had no ABS on it ... and being factory LPG ... no traction control either.

[roKWiz]

I have enough requirements forced on me to even go in the quarry as it is without resorting to circle work in the truck.

[Citroënbender]

You’re going in empty and coming out full; mine is the opposite - coming up a steep, wet, sandy, concrete roadway to “Weighbridge D” with nil ballast.

[roKWiz]

yeah, I'm coming down a busy with bigger trucks, steep dirt road onto the weighbridge with 3 tons of granite on board.
I can see how some truck and dogs get caught out.

[Citroënbender]

Care package from the gay nomads.



Zefir cakes, a highly addictive Russian sweet. I wonder how many packets were in there before AQIS checked it out?

[FairmontGS]

Arriving at the IGA just as the Sorbent truck pulled up with a fresh load.

#winning.

[Syndrome]

Michael Bloomberg giving up on the US Presidency. He, like many of his ilk, believe that if it wasn't Putin who installed Trump into the White House, then Donald himself purchased his way to the US Presidency. How wrong they all are. Bloomberg may be wealthy like Trump, but unlike Trump he offers the people more of the same. People are tired of career politicians which Donald clearly isn't. And that is why the political elite detest the 45th US President - he is not one of them and he threatens their cosy existence.

Walking in the door and cracking a beer after a B double crossed onto the wrong side of the rd and rolled right in front of me !!

I guess it just wasn't my time.

[Pedro]

What made me laugh today? ... reading about lemmings panic buying loo paper. ROFL

Yup

[.:4:.]

2 things today. I wanted mexican for lunch but the mexican place had moved. Gave the apprentice the job of finding another one, and he came good on that. So a good lunch was had. After lunch i was looking for work and just my luck a job in parramatta came up. For me thats good, friday arvo traffic from the city home is always horrendous. So for me it was a 10 minute drive home as i live nearby. I dont give a crap if the apprentice takes 30 minutes longer to get home to glebe, he's on the train so can be on his phone or whatever for the trip. Plus we got out of work half an hour early anyways. I was into my first beer by the time my 8 hours was up, cant complain about that on a friday.

[MITCHAY]

Knocked off early for the long weekend and just watched the Brumbies win again. 4/5 and a narrow 1 point loss. Usually late starters but coming good straight out of the blocks this year

[Citroënbender]

Finished the front brakes on Foster Ute, new dimpled and slotted RDA gear in standard size. Hopefully get 60K out of them.

[five 7]

Remaining three Roosters from last years chickens went out the door to a nice Indian man who's rehoming them...Peace on the homestead for a bit.

[danzvtil]

Originally Posted by five 7

Remaining three Roosters from last years chickens went out the door to a nice Indian man who's rehoming them...Peace on the homestead for a bit.

“Rehoming” them? In his face I presume?

[five 7]

Originally Posted by danzvtil

“Rehoming” them? In his face I presume?

Winner winner chicken dinner...

[.:4:.]

Got offered my dads car today. It was the thought that counted really. My sister was surprised when i said nah, dont want it. My dad would never sell that car. I remember when he got it in 2002. His lifelong goal was to one day buy a jaguar. But like jags from that era, every single they all do that issue, this car has. Even though its only done 110k. Plus i already have 2 other cars so i dont need a 3rd. I would have said yes if it was his fully optioned 2015 audi q5, but his widdow is keeping that.

[Trevor 57]

Got a phone call from my son yesterday, but it broke off before he could talk. I tried to ring back, nothing, tried to ring his wife, nothing. hmmm I thought something smells fishy

After about an hour of trying to ring and text he finally rings back and tells me that he and his family were stuck in the bush in the 4x4, front buried. He is a very experienced 4x4er, he went to turn his Patrol around and the drove into what he thought was a just a pool of dirty water, well the front disappeared into a muddy hole with virtually no bottom. He couldn't winch forward it would have taken him deeper in, so he set up an elaborate pulley system but the fat car wouldn't come out. In the last attempt to get it out the bloody winch rope came off the spool

So he got his missus and 2 little girls and started walking out before it got dark, got about 5k's out when a car pulled up and gave them a lift to Thornton where he rang me

So I loaded up the Ranger with all my recovery gear including my 25yo Tirfor winch and my son-in-law, met them at Thornton, headed to get the car out.

We thought we would trying snatching it out first, we had a couple of goes but he big problem trying to snatch him was that I couldn't get a straight run at him, I was at about a 90 degree angle so it pulled me sideways and didn't move him, so the Tirfor was anchored to a big gum in a straight line, my son and S.I.L cranked the Tirfor while I guided the car out. It just popped out like a pimple. The front of his Pootrol was buried bloody deep and nothing for the front wheels to get traction on, just a big pool of very very soft muddy water. It made for a very interesting Monday evening hahahaha.

I am waiting for the sun to rise so that I can check out my car, bloody blackberries everywhere.

Every one was safe and that is all that matters.